[extropy-chat] italian football victory

[spike]

Thanks Patricia!  This is very insightful.  There were plenty of rants
regarding the evils of nationalism, the evils of conservative politics etc,
but what I was really looking for was why the contrast between Italian and
French.  Your essay came closer to an explanation than any I saw.

spike

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spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote: 
Please offer me some insight if you have one. It appears that Italian
Americans are proud to be Italian, but French Americans are not proud to be
French. Why is that? Those two countries are neighbors, genetically the
people are about the same, they have similar population and standards of
living. Why the asymmetry?

spike 
 
 
 
Okay, how about this:
 
Italian Americans came over to the US in huge, communal waves of immigration
over a century.  They settled in areas with other Italians, in some places
creating "Little Italys." ...   http://www.frenchfestival.com/
  If this is what they think French culture is, I'm not surprised that there
are no proud French Americans!
 
Respectfully,
Patricia